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...find some such task set, the merit of which is extremely dubious. The reason given is that by these means a knowledge of the language may be ingrained in the memory and the mind thus made more retentive of the forms of good style. But if this is the end desired, why not choose the selections with a wider reference to the beauties of French literature? The passages set are mostly disconnected and uninteresting, and the ability to recite them calls forth an effort of the mind that might be better applied to something more valuable and of more literary...
...respective departments. When that time comes, the mischievous class system, with its silly notions of caste and artificial distinctions among the students, will be abolished, together with annual examinations; students will take a final examination as soon as they find themselves prepared for it, whether it be at the end of two, three, four or six years. Harvard should also be relieved from the entire burden and trouble of entrance examinations; a certificate of graduation from such preparatory schools as maintain the university standard, to be accepted as the qualification of the student for college - as the certificate from...
Miss Sadie Martinot will leave the Museum at the end of the season...
...self-sustaining. The list included Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth and many others that he named. He said that all of the institutions were practically under the control of some religious denomination-Harvard under the Unitarians, Yale the Congregationalists, Princeton under the Presbyterians, and so on to the end of the list. Colleges supported by state instead of church were not successful. He explained to his hearers why they and others should combine in assisting Kenyon, so as to enable it to extend its influence and develop into a central point to which would come students from all parts...
...remains so arbitrary and unattractive in so many respects, and while its scope is so diffused and its arrangement so incoherent, it is to be expected that men will be driven to partially neglect certain subjects, and then to resort to the cramming system to save themselves at the end, whether the subjects be taught by lectures or by the most antiquated and iron-bound sort of recitations possible...